The End of the End of the Earth

The award-winning author of Freedom examines topics like the future of the planet, public discourse, and himself in this provocative essay collection. The essayist, Jonathan Franzen writes, is like “a fire-fighter, whose job, while everyone else is fleeing the flames of shame, is to run straight into them.” For the past twenty-five years, even as his novels have earned him worldwide acclaim, Franzen has led a second life as a risk-taking essayist. Now, at a moment when technology has inflamed tr